Stop motion



Apr. w, 1923, l 31,450,931

.V. WANTE STOP MoTloN Api". l0, 1923.

. Iff lv.. WANTE STOP MoT'IoN Filed July 18, 1922 6-sheetsheet 2 V.WANTE lSTOP MOTION Filed July 18, 1922' my E WANTE STOP MOTION FiledJuly 18, 1922 6 sheets-sheet 4 Apr. W, 1923.

V.` WANTE STOP MOTION Filed July 18, 1922 6 sheets-sheet 5 Apr. w, 1923.

v. WANTE STOP MOTION 6 sheets -sheet 6 Filed July 18, 1922 Patented pr.l0, 1923.

dlld'l'td lut-Edam VINCENT WANTE, OF WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

STOP MOTION.

Application filed July 18, 1922.

T all 'whom 'it may Concern:

Be it known that l, VINCENT VANTE, a

I citizen of the United States, residing at specification.

My invention relates to stop motions for gill boXes and has tor itsessential objects the detect-ion ot' any slack or clogging of thetravelingA slivers and the stopping of the mechanism when event occurs;adaptability for use without incorporation into the ma` chine andwithout reconstruction of the latter; portability; and certainty andspeed ciA operation.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in suoli parts andin suoli combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appendedclaims.

ln the accompanying drawings which form a part of this speciiication,

|Figure l is a rear elevation of a gill box, and ot the stop motionmechanism, showing `the electric wiring diagrammatically,

Figure 2, a plan of the knock ott mechanism of my stop motion includingthe magnet housing,

Figure 3, a plan oi' the latter with the housing top removed,

Figure 4, a section on line M4 ot Figure 2,

Figure 5, a front elevation of the knock oft mechanism,

Figure 6, a fragmentary perspective -view of a portion ot the same,

Figure 7, a vertical central section ot the electric switch showingadjacent portions in side elevation,

1F igure 8, a partial section on line 8 8 of Figure l,

Figure 9, a fragmentary plan view of the knock oit mechanism showing theposition of parts preparatory to unseating the lever,

Figure l0, a diagrammatic view ot 'the entire stop motion mechanism,

Figure 1l, an enlarged rear elevation ot the detector mechanism, and

Figures l2 and 13, sections ot the same Serial No. 575,786.

on lines 12-12 and 13-13 respectively of Figure l1.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings 17 represents the trame, 18 the driving shait, 19 thepulleys, 2O the belt, 2l the fork, 22 the shitting rod, 23 the bellcrank lever, and 24 the hand operating rod ot a gill box of any usual orpre- Jferred construction.

26 is the disk, and 27 the peripherally slidable strap of an eccentric28 which is mounted on the driving shaft. An inclined reciprocatingfinger 80 is fast to the strap. Below the latter is a portable framecomprising a horizontal strip or plate 32 having a depending lateralflange Bel. The strip 32 has an oblong slot 35 with a lateral recess 36forming a resultant shoulder 37, and is sua orted at its ends b fdivero'ine leo's 88 C J C resting upon the floor 39. An oblong plate 40is attached to the rear of the frame by Ibolts al passing through theliange 8a and is spaced trom the latter by collars 42 tornr ing aresultant oblong opening 473. Fast to the rear face of the plate l0midway .its length is an ear or lug having a vertical oblong slot i6 inits upper portion, below which is fast an outwardly extendinghorizontally disposed rod i8 carrying an antifriction roller or bearingsleeve tor the finger 30. `Fastened by bolts 511: to the plate 32 is adepending tlat rod 56 bent at its lower end to form a U shaped portion5T extended to form an upright resilient arm 58 whose upper portion 59projects through the slot 35 and forms an operating handle in the pathoit a finger 60 extending trom the shifting fork 2l.

Plates 61 are clamped to opposite tacos of the arm 58 by screws 63, oneot which plates has a guide pin 6ft registering loosely in alongitudinal slot 66 in a flat rod 6T to whose opposite end is pivotedby a pin 68 a. lever69 which passes through a peripheral slot 70 in a.cylindrical switch casing` or housing 7l. The lever is pivotedintermediate its length on a pin 73 in the end walls of the housing.Fast to one of these walls is a strap 7 5 embracing the rod 56 fixingthe housing to the latter. A wire spring 77 has one end attached to theside wall of the housing by a screw 78 while its opposite end isfastened to the lever 69 by a bent end 79 passing through a perforation80. An insulating block 82 is fastened by screws 83 to the lower portionof the housing wherein is a hole 84, registering with a vertical passage85 in the block, and with a hole 86 in a metal plate 87 fastened by ascrew 88 to the top of the block. Integral with the plate is an inclinedcontact arm 89 in the path of the lever 69. There is a binding screw 91in the plate 87 and like screw 92 in a housing which .respectivelyengage a conductor 94 which passes through the holes 84, 85, and 86, anda conductor 95. The arms 69 and 89 constitute a switch indicatedgenerally by 96.

Loose on a pin 97 in the flange 34 at one side of the ear 45 is anangular lever com* prising a body 99 and arms 100 and 101. The pin 97passes loosely through a vertical oblong opening 103 in the flange 34and having a head 104 upon one end engaging the lever7 and a disk or nut105 upon the other end. A helical spring. 107 on the pin has one endpressing against the flange 34 and the other against the disk 105. Bythis construction the angular lever has not only pivotal movementtransversely of the pin. but is yielding longitudinally thereof. .On thearm 100 is a lateral spacing plate 109. To the arm 101 is looselypivoted by a pin 110 the upper end of a depending flat link 111 havingnear its lower end a longitudinal series of holes 113 adapted to receivea threaded pivot pin 115 inthe outer end of an armature lever 117. Onthe pin is a, nut 118.

The lever 117 passes through an opening 119 in an end wall of a woodenbox or casing 1217 and through lateral openings 123 in a housing 125fastened by a screw 126 to a wooden cross piece 127 in the box top. Thelever 117 is pivoted on a pin 129 fast in the housing and hasintermediate the pivotal point and its free end a laterally projectingportion 130 adapted to register with the cores 132 of a magnet 133 whosespools 134 are wound from the wire 95. passing through an opening 135 inthe box. Upon the end of the armature lever is a counterweight 1.36adjustable by a set screw 137. Extending from the spools of the magnetthrough the opening 135 is a conductor 139 leading to a battery orothersource of electrical power, in this instance to a. transformer 141connected by wires 142 and 143 to the wires 144 and 145 respectively ofa power circuit.

Resting on'the body 17 of the machine is a frame work 148 comprisingopen metallic vertical end pieces or frames 150 with a top cross bar 152and bottom cross bars 154. Each framek is filled with a wall or plate156 of insulating material covered by hollow or flanged wooden sheathingstrips 158 registering in the frames 150 and attached to the insulatingstrips by screws or bolts 160. Transversely disposed metal strips orplates 162 are fastened, one above the other, to the inner face of eachwall 156, and each plate has a longitudinal series of holes 164 registering with series of holes 165 in the walls. Mounted in the holes 164and 165 are rock shafts 166 having in their ends locl; pins 168 toywhose ends are attached helical springs 169 whose upper ends arefastened to pins 170 in the walls 156 above the shafts. Each shaftcarries a guide 171 for a length of sliver 172 passing from the usualsupply balls to the winding roll of the gill box: the balls and roll arenot shown. Each sliver comprises the usual mass of threads. Each guidecomprises a pair of legs 174 formed from bent wire whose free ends arefast to the rock shafts 166 and inclined upwardly some distance andthence downwardly at an incline as at 175 and terminate in horizontalloops 176. These guides are completed by troughs 177 bent up from sheetVmetal comprising downwardly inclined bottoms 178 and vertical sides `179. Integral sleeves 180 and 181 on the bottoms and sides respectivelyembrace the loops 176 and arm portions 175. The slivers pass through thetrough portions of the members171 and by their weight in passingovercome the resist ance of springs 169 and maintain the members 171against longitudinally disposed stop rods 184 fixed to the frames 150above the planes of the shafts 166 by screws or rivets 185. lf howeverany sliver 172 becomes broken or slack its guide is raised by its spring169 until it engages a contact rod 187. There is one metallic contactrod fast in walls 156 above each series of shafts 166 in a horizont-alplane above the stop rods 184. A longitudinally split removable tube 189of rubber or insulating material is sometimes temporarily employed onthe rods 187. Such a tube is shown in Figure 11. The ends of the rods187 proiect slightly beyond the insulating walls and are there connectedby electric wires 191. A binding screw 193 of each plate 162 passesthrough the wall 156 and carries a nut 194 to clamp a wire 196 whichthus electrically connects the series One ing in its recess 36 `and heldagainst the ac-' tion of its spring loop portion 57 by the shoulder 87.This lever is also in Contact with the finger upon the shifting fork 21which is at this time engaging the belt on the fast pulley, and theplunger finger 30 is continuously reciprocating towards and from lever59 by virtue of the eccentric 30. The spacer 109 is normally in theposition shown in Figure6 so that while the machine is running normallythe spacer is out of the path of the reciprocating finger' 30.

Vhen, however, the stop motion acts, as will be later described, thespacer 109 is swung forwardly into the path of the linger 30 as shown inFigure 9 and the nger in its next advance strikes the side of thelaterally yielding spacer 109, which is now abutting against. the lever59, and pushes the latter out of its seat. Thereupon the lever isforcibly impelled by the action of its spring 57 against the finger 60which shifts thel fork 21 to the loose pulley, as shown in Figure 2,thus stopping the machine.

The spacer 109 is thrown in operative stopping position thus. lVhen oneof the cables or slivers 172 in its passage to the winding roll becomesslack so as to occasion clogging or folding of the sliver its guide 171,released from the weight of the sliver, is by its spring 169 forcedupwardly so that its legs 174: contact with its adjacent bar 187, thusclosing the electric circuit. The current then passes through theconductor 191, rod 187, arms 1741, rock shaft 166, strip 162, wires 196,94, and through the closed switch 96 wherein the arms 69 and 89 are incontact with each other. The current passes, therefore, through theplate 87, arms 89 and 69, pin 78, housing 71, and wires 95 and 139. Thecurrent energizes the magnet 183 to tilt the lever 117, which depressesthe link 111 and lever arm 101 and swings the spacer 109 into operatingposition.

The instant the lever 59 is unseated and swings to its outward limit thecircuit is broken by the separation` of the arm 69 from the arm 89 asshown in Figure 6.

The particular number of guides 171 in use at any given time isdetermined by the number of strands desired to be wound from the supplyrolls. Therefore at times one or more horizontal rows of guides are notin use. In such case the bar 187 abo-ve the line of idle guides hasmanually applied thereto an insulating tube 189 against which the vacantarms of t-he guides normally rest so that the circuit is not closedthereby.

I claim:

1. In a gill boX, the combination with the main shaft and shifter fork,of a reciprocatory finger carried by the shaft, a resilient shifting armseated adjacent the finger adapted when unseated to swing against thefork, and a laterally yielding spacer movable into and out of the pathof the finger adjacent the lever, and means controlled by a sliver foractuating the spacer to receive the impact of the finger and unseat thelever.

2. In a gill box, the combination with the main shaft and shifter fork,vof a reciproc-atory finger carried by the shaft, a support adjacent theshaft provided with a slot below the fork, and with a recess at one endof the slot in alignment with the finger, a resilient shifting armcomprising a rigid portion fast to the support and a resilient portionprojecting above the support detachably seated in the recess, a two armlever pivotally mounted on the support, between the slot and the shaft,a spacing plate on one of the arms of the pivoted lever movable betweenthe finger and the seated portionv of the shifting arm, a link attachedto the second arm of the pivoted lever, an armature attached to thelink, a magnet adjacent the armature, an electric circuit including themagnet, a contact rod in the circuit, a yielding guide for a sliver insaid circuit engagable with the rod to close the circuit and energizethe magnet and move the armature.

3. In a gill box, the combination with the main shaft and shifter fork,of a reciprocatory finger carried by the shaft, a resilient shifting armdetachably seated adjacent the finger in the path of the fork, a rockingspacer movable into and out of the path of the finger for unseating thelever, an electric circuit, a contact rod in the circuit, a yieldingguide for a sliver in` the circuit adapted to engage the rod to closethe circuit when a sliver becomes slack, a magnet in the circuit foractuating the spacer when the circuit is closed, and a normally closedswitch in the circuit adapted to be opened by the unseating of theshifting arm.

4. In a gill boX, the combination with the main sha-ft and shifter fork,of an eccentric on the shaft, a peripheral finger on the eccentric, aspring shifting arm detachably seated adjacent the nger in the path ofthe fork, a reciprocable spacer movable between and away from the leverand finger for unseat-ing the lever, an electric circuit, a. framecomprising side walls of insulating material, Contact rods in thecircuit and connecting the walls, transverse metal strips in the circuiton the walls below the rods, rock shafts in the strips, resilient meansfor rocking the shafts, guides fast to the shaft normally depressed byslivers passing thereover and engagable with the rods to close thecircuit when the slivers are slack, and means in the circuit operated bythe closure thereof for actuating the spacer.

5. In a gill boX, the combination with the main shaft and shifter fork,of a. recip rocatng finger carried by the shaft, a resilient shiftingarm detachably seated adjacent the finger in the path of' the fork, areciprocablespacer movable into and out of the pafih of the finger forunseating the lever, an ielectric circuit, a frame comprising sideWalls, Contact rods arranged in vertical series in the walls of thecircuit, a tube of insulating` material detachably mounted on one of therods, rock shafts mounted in the Walls adjacent the rods and in thecircuit, guides for the siii/'ers fast to the shafts, resilient meansfor rocking the shafts, to engage the guides with the uncovered rods inthe circuit when the Slivers are slack whereby the 15 circuit iscio-sed, and means in ,the circuit operated by the closure thereof foractuating` the spacer.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

VINCENT WANTE.

